CSS minifier breaks on modern CSS: `calc()` spacing and `hsl(h s% l%)`
Author: onetrevCreated Sep 14, 2026Updated Sep 16, 2026
Hi Andy,
Grav 2.1.2's CSS pipeline minifies through tubalmartin/cssmin 4.1.1 (Assets/Pipeline.php), whose last commit is from January 2018. Two things it does to current CSS:
- It strips the spaces around
+and-insidecalc(), which browsers then discard as invalid, so the rule silently disappears. - It throws on space-separated colour syntax such as
hsl(210 40% 50%).
The pipeline has no per-file isolation, so one throw 500s every page. Same family as #3095 (2020), whose answer was to keep the file out of the pipeline.
Ask: a maintained minifier, or failing that, catch a minifier throw and pass that one asset through unminified. Until then assets.css_minify: false costs about 2 KB a page.
Cheers, Trev
Source: getgrav/grav